Job openings/Senior QA Engineer

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YOU ARE ...

...a person who enjoys tinkering with complex open source software, figuring out how to break it, and then comprehensively and logically documenting its flaws. As an experienced QA engineer, you understand what an effective QA organization looks like, but you're comfortable building up QA systems from scratch, largely autonomously, in a small non-profit organization with many competing priorities.

You understand how to implement tests at all levels -- in other words, you're comfortable helping with the development of unit tests, but also with careful roll-out of a new feature driven by user feedback. You are confident and comfortable communicating via public IRC channels, mailing lists, bug trackers, wikis, etc. You have the capacity and desire to become a group leader, but the patience and work ethic to shine as an individual contributor. You understand our community and open source development, and enjoy working with volunteers. You appreciate the added complexity of making software work well in all widely used languages.

Above all, making Wikipedia, the world's largest encyclopedia, and other free knowledge projects better by improving the underlying software strongly appeals to you.

REPORTS TO

Chief Technical Officer

JOB TITLE

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer [CLOSED]

JOB PURPOSE

The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer will be the first full-time quality assurance engineer employed by the Wikimedia Foundation (in a group we plan to expand). With the support of the Wikimedia Foundation staff and contract test engineers, this person will provide quality assurance support for Wikimedia Foundation's development efforts. This person is responsible for building an appropriately formal quality assurance practice, balancing the need for more predictable software development schedules with the need to maintain a vibrant and motivated development (and QA) community.

JOB SUMMARY

Duties include, but are not limited to the following:

Write test plans, complete with time estimates for completion of task by self and/or others

Perform test plans, reporting bugs found in appropriate bug tracking tools, and other results back to Engineering Program Management

Assist Engineering Program Management with scheduling and prioritization of quality assurance activities

Experience with automated testing frameworks required. Experience with Selenium, PHPUnit and Jasmine is a major plus.

Prior experience as a QA Lead or QA Manager a major plus

You are able to learn quickly. Relevant hands-on experience and eagerness to learn and try new concepts is more important than having certificates

The ideal candidate will be creative, highly motivated, and able to operate effectively in multiple cultural contexts.

You are able to work independently where needed, and can work remotely as part of a globally distributed team

Experience with large web site application architectures a major plus

Experience with systems and network security is a plus

Experience working with online volunteers is a major plus.

Experience with use of wiki technology is a major plus.

You must be comfortable in a highly collaborative, consensus-oriented environment.

Understanding of free culture / free software / open source is a plus. International work experience is a plus.

Active participation as a Wikimedia volunteer would be an asset, though not a prerequisite.

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation got its start in 2003 and is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia. Based in San Francisco, California, we currently employ over 150 staff and contractors globally. The Wikimedia Foundation is committed to creating a world in which every single human being can freely and easily share in the sum of all knowledge. Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive nearly 500 million unique visitors per month, making them the 5th most popular web property worldwide. Wikipedia is available in more than 280 languages, containing more than 47 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of over 100,000 people. In an effort to continue our mission, we are hiring talented and creative individuals to join the team.